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THE COURANT. Pubiinhod Every Thursday, ('.ARTKUMTLLE, 6KOBGIA. I/IK COURANT in published every Thursday mornina -anti in delireri <i hy c tnriers in the city nr mailed, jiosta'/e free, at fl.fiO 'i year; Site months, SO cents; three months, 00 cents. ADVERTISING RATES depend on locotinn in the paper, and will he furnished on applica tion. UOIIRKSPQNDRSCR containin'/ important netes solicited from all parts of the rxrunly. A DURESS all letters, communications and t'l ejrams, and make all drafts or checks payable to THK COI KAM. Cartemville, Ga. Official Organ Bartow Connty. DOCTOR AND MRS. W. H. FELTON. ISKI* I'EMBER 24, 1885. The Editress of The Cofkant lias been very nick for the last ten days. Though confined to her bed at this time, we hope she Is in a fair way to recover, and that under a merciful Providence she will soon he at the “helm” of this paper once more. Her home and her friends will rejoice with grateful hearts. RAIL no A D COMMISSION. As we have expected for the last few days, the Senate of Georgia has passed the bill giving the railroads of the State authority to make their own rates for carrying freight and passengers, just as it was before the creation of our commis sion hy the Legislature of 1879. As il in mockery of the helpless citizens, the bill provides that if any person, pri vate individual, is dissatisfied with the i msenger or freight tariff fixed upon by the roads, then the dissatisfied indi vidual may appeal to tiie commission, and from the decision of the commission cither the private party or the railroad may appeal to the Superior court, and front that to the Supreme court of the State. It is apparent to every intelli gent and impartial man in Georgia that tills bill practically abolishes tiie railroad commission of our State. Where is the man in Bartow county, the farmer who ships his crop of cotton once a year, who will be such a simpleton as to undertake a long and hopeless law suit through the Superior and Supreme courts of the State for the sake of ten or twelve dollars out of which the road has robbed him by its extortionary rates? Where Is the passenger going from Cartersville to Atlanta a few times each year who will, for the sake of one dollar and live cents, the difference between the old passenger rates and the passenger tariff made by the commission, com mence litigation with a great railroad orporation, which can bring millions of dollars into the field to influence public opinion and thereby influence jury and court. We believe no such “fool could be found in Bartow county.” The rail road managers who manipulated this bill through the Senate know their object, and right well have they accomplished it, as far as the Senate is concerned— namely; they tiave abolished tiie com mission. If these interested parties should boas successful with the House of Repre sentatives as they have been with the Senate, then the railroad commission of Georgia practically disappears forever. It is true, it may continue to exist as a fig urc-homl. It may make annual trips over the State in the palace car of some rail road magnate, feasting on the fat of the land at flit' 1 expense of royal railroad man agers. It may occasionally seem to differ with railroad authorities to give increased credit and respectability to the extortions of their masters, but while thus living, it will be practically dead. The railroads will have full sway, none to molest or make afraid, ruling courts, juries, legislatures, conventions, and all officials. Every breakwater gone, all safe-guards abolished, there will be the unmixed and unmodified despotism of ag gravated wealth ruling and absorbing the profits of all labor. The Senate of Geor gia has said amen. May God deliver the old State from ever witnessing another such Senate assembled in her capitol ! W. 11. F. TAX ASSESSORS. The Senate of Georgia has passed the bill authorizing the appointment of tax assessors for each county iti the State. There is no telling what this wonderful and most remarkable Senate will do next. We think, however, that a body of men capable of injuring the people they pro fess to represent by virtually abolishing the railroad commission, which saves millions of dollars annually to the people of the State, and which does the rail roads no harm, should, as a finishing touch to their manifest contempt of the people, enact a measure which reflects upon the honor, honesty and truthful ness of every tax payer in the State. This Senate bill says to the tax payers, you cannot be trusted to value your property even under oath, and we, your distinguished Senators, will send inquis itors over your lands, into your ward robes, make them rummage through your notes and accounts, examine your furniture, your mules and cows, your goods and chattels; see whether the ring on your wife’s finger is pure gold or spuriohs, inspect your watches, your old pots and ovens, everything, so that Georgia may extract the last dollar of taxes from her toil-worn people, and so that State Senators may have the pleas ure of making liberal appropriations. Such is the practical announcement of the railroad lawyers, and railroad stock holders in the Senate. Good Lord, de liver ns from another Senate made up of such material. Citizen. Thousands Say So. Mr. T. W. Atkins, Girard, Kan., write: “l never hesitate to recommend your Electric Bitters to my customers, they give entire satisfaction and are rapid sellers.” Electric Bitters are tlm purest and best medicine known and will positively cure Kidney and Liver com plaints. Purify the blood and regulate the bowels. Xo family can afford to be without them. They will save hundreds of dollars in doctor’s bills every year. Sold at fifty cents a bottle by D. W. Curry. • 3 Fruit Towder at Curry’s. RECOLLECTIONS OF TUB CIVIL SER VICE OF THE CONFEDERATE GOV ERNMENT. ET tr. 1). CAPERS. CHAPTER ITT. It will be readily perceived by the read er who has thus far followed t,s In these recollections, that as the government crystalized I was of necessity brought in contact with those who had been selected as the heads of the different departments in such a manner as to have a knowledge of each; whose wants, to a certain extent, it was not only my duty, but my pleas ure, to meet. The Treasury Department, to which I was officially attached, was really organized, and in some of its sub ordinate branches actively at work, be fore all of the cabinet officers were in stalled. As these gentlemen would ar rive Mr. Memminger, * with character istic urbanity, extended such courtesies through his executive officers, as the cir cumstances readily suggested. It was in thi3 way that I had the pleasure of meeting with the ministers who were to direct the several departments of the gov ernment. When it is remembered that their offices were at the outset in the same building, and that this \iai a struc ture of such ordinary dimensions as its original commercial character would in dicate, the reader can understand that there was, in this formative period of ad ministration, but few barriers other than a sense of propriety would suggest, in vesting tiie official dignity of executive heads or their subaltern officers. Tiie diagram below will illustrate the arrangement of the cabinet officers on the second floor of the executive building. While it exhibits the close proximity of tiie several secretaries, it may also assist tiie writer in locating certain incidents to which he will refer in subsequent pa pers : Market Street. II “ ~ 1 2 3 4 5 6 Open Court. 7 12 11 10 9 8 1. (Jliicf Olerk State Department. 2. Secretary of State. 3. —President’s Oilice. 4. Pr vate Secretary of President. B.—Secretary of Treasury. o.—Assistant Secretary of Treasury. 7. —Chief Clerk Treasury. 7}4. —Commerce Street Entrance. 8. —Register of Treasury, 9. Secretary of War. 10. Adjutant General and Chief Clerk. 11. Attorney-General. 12. Secretary Navy. Shortly' after the Secretary of the Treasury had become domiciled, in what was then thought to be his permanent official quarters, the President moved his office from the Exchange Hotel to the apartments prepared for him in the exec utive building. Although I had met Mr. Davis before he came virtually to live with his devoted ministers at the execu tive offices, yet the meeting had been only such as the formalities of an intro duction or the ceremonies of a set occa sion would permit. At bis office and in the routine of my duties I met him, after he entered upon his authority as chief magistrate, often, and at other times when the social features of official life brought into play the more genial ele ments of nature. The disparity of age, and the difference in the rank of our ollieial positions were such that I could not have been admitted to any degree of personal intimacy; yet there was in those day3 no lack of oppor tunity for even a young gentleman to stand in the presence of his superior in age or rank, when he preserved a re spectful recognition of the proprieties ot life. Mr. Davis never impressed me as be ing an austere person who was unap proachable by reason of any evidences of asceticism or self-importance. On the contrary his dignified deportment was so naturally easy, his manners so graceful in their simplicity, his conversation so free from all taint of barbarisms, that from the first I recognized in him a type of the cultured Southern gentleman,who. while he commanded your respect, in sensibly won your admiration. There was no blatant self-assertion, no vulgar display of egotism, so commonly a char acteristic of the politician whose eleva tion to a place of distinction too often carries with it the evidences of coarse breeding and defective sensibilities. Perfectly calm and self-possessed, never moved to the exhibition ot temper how ever exasperated; ready at repartee with out a trace of low wit; warm in his com mendations without a word of fulsome laudation; strong in his censure of what ever he believed wrong or unjust, but never with vulgar adjectives; sincere in convictions, frank in their expressions, he despised deceit and abominated the low cunning of the political charlatan. Such were the impressions of the eharae aeterof Mr. Davis made upon my mind not in a single visit to him, but which grew with the daily associations of my official life until they fixed themselves in my mind as a reflex of a naan who had disciplined himself, and cultured the graces of a nature richly endowed by his creator. I have to this day never had occasion to correct these impressions, nor have I ever known this character comnromised by any word or act of its possessor. My duties would at times bring me in direct contact with the President. Whether it was to furnish the abstracts of the Secre tary of the Treasury’s report in advance of a message to Congress and explain in answer to his inquiry, some detail there- in embodied, or whether to receive seme suggestion or direction with regard to the conveniences of the executive build ing, of which I hail been made superin tendent; whether I met him at tiie office or, as once oeeured, at the Executive Mansion to find him racked with the pains of neuralgia, from which he was at times a great sufferer. I never met other than the expressions of a perfect gentle man, or heard a word, under anyjcireum stances of aggravation, which betrayed an ungoverued temper, or evinced a harsh criticism. Immediately adjoining the offices of the President was that of his Secretary of State, Robert Toombs, whose ghastly epigrams were rolled out in those clays as freely about the corridors of the exec utive building as they have since been heard in the hotels of our Georgia cities. Mr. Toombs did not remain long in the cabinet of Mr. Davis, nor is this to be wondered at by any who know the char acters of tiie two men. In one respect alone did they resemble —they wore hu man beings—but, in their moral and in tellectual expressions, they differed as widely from each other as the cyclone does from the steady trade winds of the ocean. Why Mr. Toombs saw proper to withdraw from the cabinet of Mr. Davis, formed at the time a subject of much less conjecture than in these later days of re views and reviewer.-. It was reported at the time that the Secretary of State found his official duties so few that his capacious hat furnished room enough for hi3 diplomatic correspondence. Be this as it may, he turned over his port folio to his excellent assistant, Mr. Wm. M. Browne, and sought to satisfy his pa triotic spirit as a brigadier in the army. There was no violent rupture, no antag onism of policies, that we ever heard of in the “kitchen cabinet,” composed of the department assistants, who often met and exchanged opinions in a social way over what was transpiring about the olflees of their chiefs. A single remark, reported on one of these occasions to have been made by Mr. Toombs, gave me Mien what I. have always believed to be the true reason, if there was much reasoning in the matter, for his course. About this time, and while the resigna tion of Mr. Toombs w as the topic of con versation, Mr. Phillip Clayton, the as sistant secretary of the treasury, asked ina company of gentlemen the question, “Whose collar do you wear?” explain ing the question by stating that Mr. Toombs had said “lie would be it he would wear the collar of any man on earth.” After this it was common to hear about the department the question, “whose collar do you wear?” It was then, for the first time, that I became informed that Mr. Toombs had aspired to the pres idency of the Confederacy, and that his name had been brought before the con vention by the Georgia delegation. I cannot believe, however, from my knowledge of the gentleman, that a dis appointed ambition was the sole cause of the withdrawal of Mr. Toombs from the cabinet of Mr. Davis. His imperious na ture, I apprehend, made him ill at ease in a position where he could, at best, be no more than an adviser. There were no representatives of foreign govern ments at his office, and no easy approach to the courts of European potentates. Fie could appear there only as the repre sentative of a people seeking the recog nition of a national character not yet passed beyond the erysilis state of a de facto existence. Diplomacy, as an art, he despised, and to supplicate was so for eign to his nature that he could ask nothing but in the form of a demand. As to what may have privately transpired between Mr. Davis and his unique secre tary, I, of course, could know nothing. If there was, as has been stated, an ulti matum in tiie form of a line of policy presented to the President by Mr. Toombs, it was securely locked away in the reticence of these gentlemen, and was never permitted to become even a conjecture among the subordinate ollicors of the government. (TO BE CONTINUED.) One of the most telling speeches deliv ered in the General Assembly for many a day past, was Dr. FWton’s on the bill for the sale of the State road.* It was a powerful and unanswerable argument against the covered scheme for “gob bling up” the most valuable possession of the jieople by certain interested par ties, and the echoes of this incisive speech will reverberate for many a day to come over the hills and through the valleys of Georgia. The honorable rep resentative from Bartow proved himself to be a true friend and champion of the people on this and equally important is sues where effective speech, high moral courage, patriotic affinity with the peo ple and incorruptible character are es sential to defeat wily and unscrupulous schemes of aggrandizement. —Atlanta Journal. ATLANTA LETTER. A n.ANra, Ga., Sept. 22, 1885. This and the coming week will decide a question that will have a greater influ ence on the political government of Geor gia for the next twenty-five years, than did the “reconstruction eclipse,” to bor row a happy epithet from Dr. Feltou’s late speech against the sale of the State Road. That question is whether the railroads, of this State shall be subject to the peo ple or the people be subject to tiie rail roads. That is the real issue involved in the bill to curtail the powers of the rail road commission, as passed in the Senate. Tiie bill as it now stands, if it becomes a law, is worse than an absolute abolish ment of the commission. A careful ex amination of the text Will convince the people of this. It entails endless litiga tion in every county touched or penetra ted by a railroad. It proposes to lodge with juries decision on facts and conclu sions from contingencies, of which they must be in the main ignorant. Besides, the law that leaves a citizen at the mercy of a railroad for law suits, is a millstone about his neck. But, it is nor my place as a news correspondent to argue edito rially-like, and.so I shall go to the news in the case. ITS CIIANCES IN THE IIOUSE. The bill has been read once and re ferred to the railroad committee. The bill has a majority in the committee. This majority recognizes that the mi nority cannot be cajoled into a favorable report at once, with the certainty that an unfavorable report will be filed by the minority. The favorable report will be before the House Thursday morning. It is probable the minority report will be later. The debate will he very int°resting, and may be, exciting. Messrs. Gustin and Bartlett of Bibb, Gordon of Chatham, Harrison of Quitman, and Calvin and Brandt of Richmond, may be looked to for careful arguments in favor of the bill. The opposition will not lack leaders. It is expected that Dr. Felton will speak against the bill, and the opposition is clirystalizing about him as the leader* Mr. Berner of Monroe, the best debater among the younger members, and who fought the bill for a prison reformatory school, will stand shoulder to shoulder with the Doctor in his defense of the people against the encroachments of the moneyed monopolists. Mr. Arnheim of Dougherty, will oppose the bill, and it is more than probable that that judicious legislator, Mr. Turner of Troup, will lend his aid to the interests of the people. The railroads have their minions in the lobbies and galleries, and on the floor, in the hotels and on the street corners. Everywhere may be found agents of the corporations who are seeking to have ab rogated a law which governs them in the exercise of the franchises granted them-by the State subject to the State’s laws. 5V hat llui more cogent arguments are that are used, I do not know; but their cogcnqjy is admitted, and by the ini tiated, may'he seen. V ANOTHER LOBBY. . The insurance men are opposing very bitterly Mr. Calvin’s bill providing for payment in full of policy on houses de stroyed by fire. As the lav/ stands valu ation is made after fire, notwithstanding that the value of tiie policy never ex ceeds two-thirds the real worth of anv house. It is rare that the full amount of a policy is paid. The law as it stands is altogether for the benefit of the insu rance companies. Commerce Street. The agents here are publicly threaten ing to withdraw from the State if the proposed bill passes. They, too, are thronging galleries and lobbies. Agents are here from several larger cities of Georgia. Their threat of withdrawal from the State is foolish braggadocio. If they are not willing to pay the amount of the policy, the pro rata premium which they take is taken dishonestly; and that is all there is to it. Here is the bill: Be it enacted, etc., That after the pas sage of this Act, any insurance company or companies, agent or agents of the same, effecting or making insurance on any buildings in this State, b?, and the same are hereby required to make, or have made, at the time of said insurance is about to be effected and annually thereafter upon renewal, an assessment of said building or buildings; and should the said building or buildings thus in sured be totally destroyed by' fire, the full amount of insurance, as set forth and written in the policy of said insurance for which all reauired premiums shall have been paid, shall be paid within six ty days from the date of the fire by which said building or bull lings was de stroyed as aforesaid; Provided, that nothing in the provisions of this Act shall be construed to prevent the insu rance company or companies, agent or agents of the same, from accepting, in lieu of the assessment herein required, if they so select, an assessment made by the owner, or his authorized representative, on said buildings desired to be insured. Be it further enacted, etc., That in the event of the total destruction of said building or buildings by fire, there shall be no further assessments. If the amount of insurance, as sec forth and written in the policy embracing and covering said building or buildings, be not paid, as provided in this Act, within the prescribed sixty days, the claimant holding under said policy of insurance may bring said company or companies, agent or agents of the same, and recover said insurance and the cost of said suit; Provided, that in the event of any partial loss or destruction by’ tire of any build ing or buildings so insured, shall be held and determined that the company or companies, agents of tiic same, having issued a policy or policies thereon, shall be liable for such damage as shall have been done; Provided, the same does not i exceed the amount of insurance erf prefsed in the body ot said policy or pol icies. THAT INVESTIGATION. The joint committee is doing its work very slowly in investigating the use of I four miles of the State road by the Geor -1 gia Pacific. Here is an interesting dpo -19 ttment, copied from the executive re cords. It is worth its space. Executive Department ) Atlanta, Ga., Aug, G, ’BS. ( Whereas: The Georgia Pacific Kail road Company has petitioned for the right-of-way over a portion of the Wes tern and Atlantic railroad; it is there fore ordered: That in pursurnce of the authority of the general assembly, which acts are specifically referred to in the pe tition, That the privilege is granted to the Georgia Pacific Railroad Company of building its road on the right-of-way of the Western ane Atlantic railroad for a distance not to exceed four miles from the depot in Atlanta. Believing that the building of the Georgia Pacific road and its extent-ion to the West is of great importance to the people of this State, and that the enter prise should be fostered and encouraged in its inception, and further believing that pecuniary compensation for use of the right-of-way should be moderate, the privilege is, the right-of-way is here by granted in consideration of the sum of one thousand dollars to be paid. Alfred 11. Colquitt, Governor. There is no evidence that that thou sand dollars has ever been paid, nor is it clear that the state received a benefit commensurate with the cash value of the franchise. The committee meets again to-morrow. NOTES. The governor lias signed the general local option bill, and the special levy tax bill for building the capitol. The bill providing a reformatory school for Richmond county lias passed both branches of the Assembly. The House to-day passed a hill by Mr. Brandt to encourage good conduct of prisoners of ehaingangs by shortening terms four days each month for good be havior. The House has reconsidered its decis ion to have night sessions, and instead, will work from three to six in the after noon. There will be a prohibition election here November 0. The temperance men are active. A fund of nearly $20,000 is already subscribed for campaign pur poses. The whisky men meet to-night to perfect their plans for the contest. A DANGEROUS MEASURE. Telegraph and Messenger.] There is before the Georgia Legisla ture, a bill to require fine insurance com panies to pay the full amount for which policies may be written, in case of loss by lire, without the usual adjustment to cut down the payment to amount actual ly lost, in cases where insurance is in excess of value. We have before refer red to a similar bill reported by the judi ciary committee to the House some two months ago, and we repeat in effect what we then said, that this is one of the most pernicious measures brought before the present Legislature. Under the present laws we do not know of any difilculty in collecting the actual amount of any hon est loss, and it is neither just nor expedi ent that insurance— which is intended only as an indemnity against loss—shall be made a matter of speculation by un scrupulous men. The bill before the House offers a temptation to men of easy conscience and loose principles, which many will take advantage of—and the best result must be great loss, or bank ruptcy, to the insurance companies, un less they can recoup themselves by great ly advanced rates, which the honest men must pay on account of the rascals who burn or sell out to the insurance compa nies, So ic would app; ar that the inter ests of honest men are in the direction of the defeat of this law. But there is a great probability that the insurance com panies will withdraw from the State where their capital is liable to be stolen from them under such a law, which gives no advantage to an honest man, but puts a premium upon rascality. Only very recently fill the fire insurance companies withdrew at once from the State of New Hampshire upon the passage of a law similar to the one now proposed in Geor gia, and it is needless to present to the consideration of men of business the state of things that would exist should they do the same in Georgia. Telegrams re ceived by our local insurance agents yes terday already indicate this purpose on the part of companies represented here. This law is not like those against outside insurance capital, but effects home and foreign companies alike. Our few home companies could not carry a tithe of the commercial insurance of the State, even if they were not as disastrously affected as the others, and when old companies with large accumulations decide they cannot safely do business under such a law, it is hardly probable that prudent men with capital to invest will be will ing to form new companies that must start under all the disadvantages of the law which drives out old established com panies. The proposed law if conliiud to real estate only would be a bad law, as it presupposes every agent of an insurance company to have the knowledge of a practical builder, and the enforcement of it would compel the insurance companies to protect them selves, as we have before stated, by a system of inspections and ap praisements that would greatly compli cate and increase the cost of insurance. But when applied to stocks of merchan dise the law offers inducement to villainy beyond anything heretofore known in this State. As an illustration of its work ings consider the following: A party who has a stock of SIO,OOO on the Ist of October may apply for and obtain, after full inquiry and inspection, an insurance of $7,500. We will suppose that by spring he any have reduced his stock to $5,000, or even leas, which reduction he can conceal if he will. Finding business unsatisfactory and wishing to close out, he may, if unprincipled, arrange to sell out to the insurance companies by a well planned lire, and the companies must pay him the $7,500 insurance regardless of the fact that it may be double Ins loss. Such protection to a rascal as is afforded by this law not only encourages rascality, but it exposes to the hazard of these ras cally burnings, the property of honest men who may not wish to have the ex pense of full insurance, and so suffer loss by the act of the speculative fire-bug. As above stated, an honest loss is easi ly arrived at under the present laws, and competition for business will force the various companies to settle with fairness if they wish to continue to do a good bus iness. In case ot dispute as to value, the company is not allowed to fix the prices but every policy provides tor reference to appraisers. These appraisers are taken from the community in which the insur er lives, and it must be a hard case where a policy holder cannot get justice with his own neighbors for the judges. If our Legislators are anxious to do something for those who insure let them remove the restriction of the deposit law, which many good companies refuse to comply with 0!i principle, and thereby increase the number of companies doing business in the State, making greater competition, which is the best regulator of all com mercial business. WHERE DAVIS WAS CAPTURED. A Visit to the Spot on Which lie Camped for the East Time. 31. B. Lumsden in Telegraph & Messenger.] Twice in the last two years have L visi ted the spot where Mr. Davis surrender ed the last title to the Confederacy, and I wish to correct some errors and give some correct information in regard to the capture, given me by.reliable citizens of Irw in county, who carried me to the spot and pointed out the different positions of Mr. Davis’s camp and the positions of the two bodies of Federal cavalry. I took notes at the time of my visit to the historic spot, but they are mislaid and I shall write from memory. Mr. Davis was captured about two miles from Ir winvilie (not Invinton), the county die of Irwin county, on the road leading from Abbeville, Wilcox county to Irwi.ii ville, and about twenty-five miles from the former place. Mr. Davis and party crossed the Oemulgee near Abbeville, Wilcox county, about twenty-five miles below Hawkinsville, at a ferry called “Poor Robin’s.” About 100 yards above this ferry and in fifty or seventy-five yards of the river is a remarkable spring called “Poor Robin” spring. I visited it when ice was on the shrubs between the spring and Abbeville, yet the water was quite warm and the young man with me went in bathing and said he often did so in winter. The spring is quite large, twenty-five feet square, and there flows quite a large stream from it. It is said to have remarkable curative qualities in skin diseases on man and beast. It is a fact known by old citizens that a horse with scratches carried into the spring a few times is soon cured. From the ferry Mr. Davis and party came by Abbeville and took the road to Irwiuville. The Federal cavalry got on track of them at ferry or Abbeville, and there they divided, the Michigan Regi ment taking one road and the Wisconsin another. The party of cavalrymen that took the river at House Creek road, after going some distances found out that Mr. Davis had not gone that road, so they left it and came on toward Irwiuville. This village, although the county site, con tained only the court house, jail, one one store and two dwellings. Finding at the village that Mr. Davis had not pass ed, they then took the road back towards Abbeville. Mr. Davis and party were unconscious of being so closely pursued, and when they came to where one of those little piny woods branches crosses the road and makes a little pond aljove the road, se lected that place for a camp and pitched their tents to the right of the road on the side of the branch next to Irvvinviile. There, under the tall waving pines (for there were no oaks at that place), upon the green wire grass which at that season covered the whole face of the country, tired and worn out, they lay down to sleep. There was only one house near Mr. Davis’ camp between there and Inwin ville. It was at this house the party who came around by lrwinville learned where he was camped. Ido not now recollect whether it was the Michigan or Wisconsin party. They approached near the camp and halted about dav-break or just before the party from the lrwinville side advanced. The party from the Ab beville side, who were some three or four hundred yards from the camp and per haps waiting for the attack, and mistak ing their own men for Confederates, commenced firing, which was kept up some time, until they discovered their mistake, oeveral men were killed and one or two horses. “Right here,” said my informant, “a fine mare was killed,” and strange to state there is a clean place and no grass growing there after so many years. There are a groat many pine trees with places cut out of them where relie-hunt ers have cut out the balls that were lodged in the trees during the fight. It is known as the Jeff'Davis Battle Ground. It is a fact that the two or three large pines under which Mr. Davis camped have been struck by lightning and are now dead. One was burned down by one of the fires that periodically take place in the wire grass country. The old man who lives near found, after all had left, a carbine or musket. He kept it hid for awhile but the roving band of Yankee soldiers tv ho a few days after vis ited the place, took it from him, and if I mistake not, robbed him of all the mon ey he had, about 25 cents in silver. The old man and his house have both passed away, A small plot of ground, perhaps half an acre, devoid of wire grass (for it is a fact that wire gras3 once Mug or plowed up never again grows on the land), shows where the house stood. Freserve your Fruits. Yofl have immense (futilities of fruit this vear, now will you slight your inter ests, when you can procure Dr. Massey’s Fruit Preserving Powder, anil thus save enough to last you a dozen years? The Powder will save the fruits with out- self-sealing jars if tire can is suffi cient to prevent evaporation. The Pow der has been tried four years, and is a success. Sold by ID W. Curry, Wholesale Drug gist. LEGAL INTELLIGENCE. Bartow Superior Court. SESSIONS.—Sceomt Mondays in January aml J illy. OFFICERS.—J. C. Fain, Judge; .T. W. Harris, Jr., Solicitor General; F. M. Durham, Clerk; W. W. Roberts, Sheriff, John A. Gladden, Dep uty Sheriff. Bartow County Court. SESSIONS.— First Monday in Quarterly terms first Mondays in M fIL-j June, September and December. OFFICERS —G. S. Tumlin, Judge; J. J. Con ner, Solicitor General; F. M. Durham, Clerk; J. G. Broughton, Bailiff'. Bartow SherifF’s Sales FQK OCTOBER, 1885. \T 7 IT.L BE SOID BEFORE TIIE COURT 3 V house door in Cartersville. Bartow county, Georgia, between the legal sale hours. On tlm First Tuesday in October. ISBS. The following property, to-wit: One lot in King- ton, Bartow cous.ty, Ga., containing two (2) acres , or less, upon which is situated one and welling house now occupied by Mrs. Mary E. Rainey; one small store house and other outbuildings. Said lot bounded on the north by vacant lot owned by Mrs. Mary E. Rainey and Mrs. Lily Bailey, on the south by street running parallel with tho W. & A. R. the west by street running north from W. & A. R. R , and on the east by the Kuson Hotel lot. The property levied on hei ng the T. R. Concho residence lot. Also a vacant lot situated in the town of Kingston, said State and county, containing one-tourth of an acre more or less, lying on the corner of the street north ot ih town lot known :,s the McCravey hotel lot, and running north one hundred feet, from tinmen west one hundred and four feet, thence south one hundred feet, thence e rfi one hundred and four feet to the starting point. Ail levied on and will be sold as the property of the estate of Thomas R. Couche, deceased, to satisfy one ti. fa. issued from the Superior Court of Bartow county in fayor of George C. Wyatt vs. A. P. Wofford, as administrator of the es tate ofTho?. R. Couche, deceased. Said 11. fa. proceeding for the use of Mrs. M. E. Rainey, transferree. Property point ed out by plaintiff’s attorney and in pos session of Mrs. M. E. Rainey and W. Y. Bailey. Notice waived. $7.05. .Also, at the same time and place, lots of land numbers 222 and 199, lying in tho 15th Dist. and 3d section of Bartow coun ty, Georgia; each containing 160 acres, more or less (excepting 0 or 7 acres, more or less, which has been sold off of lot 199, on tho northeast corner, to the Methodist church, and for burial pur poses; and, also, 9 acres, more or less, sold to Hart King, col'd, on the west end of said lot, and lying between the line of said lot and the public road, running across the lot, also 8 acres, more or less, sold off' to William Logan, and now owned and occupied by Geo. W. Hill, lying oast of the public road leading to Adairsyille, from said Methodist church, and being on the southwest corner of said lot). All levied on and will be sold, as the property of Mrs. Mary M. Martin, defendant, for the purchase money, un der and by virtue of a li. f.i. issued from the Superior court of said county, i;i ia vorof Jane McAllister, vs. said Mary M. Mai tin. Del filed and recorded in Superior court, . as provided by law. Prep-Tty in posses.- Jon of de fendant. $6.56. Also, ad part® of jots of land num bers 21-1,:B 15 and 213, lying in the slh Dist. and 3d .sec! i m c.{ Bartow county, Ga., known as the Mrs. Nancy Hender son place, and said to contain 358 acres in all, more or less. Said land levied on and will be sold as the property of Mrs. Nancy Henderson, to satisfy one ii. fa. issued from the Superior court of said count}', in fa vor of Sinclair Mac Hen derson vs. Nancy Henderson. Proper ty in possession of said Mrs Henderson, and pointed out by plaintiff’s attorney. $3.03. Also, lots of land numbers 1250, 1251, 1268, 1269 and 1270, h ing and being ill the 17th Dist. and 3 1 section ot Bartow county, Ga.; each containing 40 acres, more or less. Levied on and will be sold as the property of the estate of Samuel F. Stephens, deceased, in the hands ot Jas. E. Stephens as executor, to be ad ministered, under a fi. fa. issued from the Superior court of said county, in fa vor of Dan’l S. IVmtup, receiver, etc., vs. Jas E. Stephens as executor, as aforesaid. J. B. McGinnis, tenant ,ui possession. $3.56. Also at the same time and place, the undivided half interest in remainder (af ter life estate of Celia A. Willis, wife of said A. Willis, is terminated) in lots of land Nos. 1216 and 1162, in the 21st dis trict and 2nd section of Bartow county, Ga. Levied on and will tie sold as the property of W. 51. Wjins by virtue of and to satisfy tvvo justice court li. fas. from Justices Court 851st G. M., Cobb county, in favor of A. Willis vs. Willis. Fi. fa- , backed by W. 11. Martin, N. P. and ex-ofneie J. P., Bartow cofiTD ty, and levy made b} r L. W. Fowler, li. C., and returned to me. W. M. Willis tenant in possession and notified of levy. $1.02. W. W. Roberts, Sheriff'. J. A. Gladden, Dep’y Sh’ff. Administrator’s Sale. By virtue of the last will and testa ment of David Fisk, late of Bartow coun ty, Ga., deceased, will before the court house door in Carter ; ville, sai l county, on tliH first Tuesday in October next, within the legal sale hours, sell the fol lowing property to-wit: The undivided one-half interest in lot of laud No. two hundred and eighty nine, in the 2-did district and 2nd section Bartow county, said lot containing IGO more or less —about 70 acres cleared, the balance in timber, with ordinary or com mon improvements. Same sold as the proper tv of David I - isk, deceased, tor distribution under his will. Terms of sale, cash. This Sept. Ist, 1885. A. A. VixcKNr, with will annexed. j *•>••••-1 / “Cet Eli,” ">T-vl don’t stop a minute. C. Ij. C. wifi him so nimble in his joints that he or.:i \,oik like a 2:40 race horse. A healthy liver and sound kidneys will make a man strong, useful ai?d long-lived.